About Me

I design best when I listen first, bring different perspectives together, and balance the craft with the why. When I close my laptop, I'm out on a trail somewhere.

Points of View

How cultural cognition shapes why Japanese digital interfaces look the way they do and why that's not a design failure.

How cultural cognition shapes why Japanese digital interfaces look the way they do and why that's not a design failure.

What Miyazaki's design philosophy reveals about holistic thinking, visual density, and building worlds people believe in.

What Miyazaki's design philosophy reveals about holistic thinking, visual density, and building worlds people believe in.

How Japanese sound words like fuwa fuwa, kira kira, and goro goro can inform the feel of typography, motion, and UI texture.

How Japanese sound words like fuwa fuwa, kira kira, and goro goro can inform the feel of typography, motion, and UI texture.